A few points of clarification for Sunday's event (in response to this post)- not sure it matters this late in the game, but thought you should know:

1) There is a suggested donation of $20 that will go directly to Obama for America, but we will not be collecting donations at the door. There will be a tent/tables inside the venue where concert-goers can donate. Also, people can donate at any level.

2) We will have a list of people that donate $20 so that if they decide to give early in the day, they can come by the table at the end of the event to pick up their poster (so they don't have to carry it around).

3) As for those that donate beforehand, we are setting aside posters for them but because there is no guaranteed entrance (it's still a free, public show) we are encouraging everyone who donates early to make sure they arrive at an appropriate time to get inside the venue.

In addition, this is a completely grassroots-organized event (all volunteers). The campaign did not have any involvement.

ol at 'sitting this election out' you'd probably sit this election out if he ate pepperoni on his pizza. relax. just admit you're lazy. its impossible to agree with everything the candidate says. and it's pretty obvious he's only saying it so he doesn't come off as thew crazy radical liberal. i think he'd be easily swayed on the gay marriage front.

And that kind of thinking is why this country and the world for that matter is in the state it is in.

WAKE UP PEOPLE. The United States is a criminal government. Republican/Democrat=One in the same. The voting system is a fraud. Remember 2000? You are being consistently LIED to by your government through the CONTROLLED media.

I suppose the reason someone sits down to write something is for a reason. We all have reasons. My reason is for you. For those of you who are my age, or slightly younger, and slightly older. Because I see you, wondering why it is you decide commit yourselves to the things that you do. Why you decide to make yourself the things that you are. I see you live in a social pool that’s shallow and apathetic. I see you exist in a political environment which resides on the basis of exposed, affected spontaneities and hidden existing norms. I see you, reside in your apartments and homes, equal with NYC skylines or next to train tracks pulling freight. And I wonder with you as to why it is exactly we might choose to make a real decision about the our world, about their world, and about our world.

I see your culture, and how it no longer deteriorates any longer for you to appreciate what it was you once had. We all now live in an environment with such omnipresence where the harshest accoutrement necessitated by adverse effects might be a sweater. Or an umbrella if you’re feeling so indisposed. Why not ask yourself why this now exists? Has this always been as thus? As the world grows larger, the scene gets larger, the market gets larger, the people increase, the money becomes a factor, the interest grows, the sight gets lost, and once where you found yourself in the middle of the most sublime and interesting fracas you could have possibly imageine, you know find yourself in the middle of nowhere. Where do are you calling home when you find this place?

"Barack "marriage is between one man and one woman" Obama can suck my cock.

Liberal my ass. This motherfucker might as well be a Republican.
I'm sitting this election out."

if anyone is going to sit this election out, that's fine. but if you're going to complain afterwards, you can suck my cock.
for a president to lean to the radically left is dumb. at least bush's legacy will fade until jeb comes along, if obama is president.

Janet 9:59, if you're there by 1pm you should get in no problem before either of the openers, after that it's a matter of how many crazed, politically active Obama supporters show up. Oh, and Yo La Tengo fans.

I stopped going to Yo La Tengo shows a few years ago, after seeing them a few dozen times in the 90s; they just kept playing their most boring material too long. Glad I caught the end of this one for "Blue Line Swinger." Then they did two predictable novelty covers and a lame song from 1997. Goodbye to a great venue.

I agree Blue Line Swinger would have been a great way to say goodbye to the pool and the encore songs sort of detracted from that. I was crying when they did that song, thats a funeral dirge far as Im concerned. Walked away a fan even though I wasnt before.

'I stopped going to Yo La Tengo shows a few years ago, after seeing them a few dozen times in the 90s; they just kept playing their most boring material too long. Glad I caught the end of this one for "Blue Line Swinger." Then they did two predictable novelty covers and a lame song from 1997. Goodbye to a great venue.'

oh my god, shut up. you're just the worst kind of music fan ever. why did you even bother to go out today? you could have got your topshop mat and just left and let the rest of us enjoy yo la tengo, even with songs you don't like from 97 and predictable covers. maybe you should have gone over the set list with them before the show so they could play the perfect show for you. fuckin old people.

NO ONE CARES if you thought a band "killed it" or "fucking sucked". why's it so rare for any anonymous fuck on this site to elaborate or even briefly state exactly what about a show left them convinced a band is worthy of eating a big fat weenie or if you're really passionate, poo? (how cute) but then, using bathroom humor to articulate strong thoughts on a performance probably means asking for actual opinions on musical aesthetics = a tall order. and obviously no one cares about this post either but stilllll

i don't get people. i know it's not cool to like what lots of other people like but in terms of politics. ARE YOU SERIOUS? like would you really rather have mccain for four years than obama? you've got to be kidding me. what is mccain going to do for you? it's almost like your dislike for obama is blinding you from seeing mccain is not at all worthy of the presidency.

these are the reasons people would vote for McCain:
-They are rich and don't feel they deserve to pay more taxes
-They are one of those dumbass "never forget 9/11" bumper-sticker people and they are dumb enough to fall for the Guiliani/Bush/McCain fear propaganda
-they hate black people
-They hate intellectuals and all that stuff that goes with hating intellectuals (loving Jesus, guns, not believing in evolution, etc.)

wordddddd insomniac. bv commenters can wrap up all feelings about an act in a vague apathetic one-liner.. but preach the shit out of their borrowed political views? on a MUSIC - BLOG? and in such an organized fashion too. niiiice 11:11. instead of posting that mind blowing post at that time you should have wished for a personality.

i don't get people. i know it's not cool to like what lots of other people like but in terms of politics. ARE YOU SERIOUS? like would you really rather have obama for four years than mccain? you've got to be kidding me. what is obama going to do for you? it's almost like your dislike for mccain is blinding you from seeing obama is not at all worthy of the presidency.